2026 George Varghese: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	97	420	408	232	224	295	43733

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For network algorithmics that make the Internet faster, more secure, and more reliable.
2014 - IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award “For contributions to the field of network algorithmics and its applications to highspeed packet networks.”
2002 - ACM Fellow For contributions to efficient scalable algorithms.

Overview

George Varghese is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a specialization in several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work covers a variety of topics within the environmental domain. Key areas of study include:

Air Quality and Health Impacts
Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
Heavy metals in environment
Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
Biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties

Varghese has contributed research articles to several scholarly venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

Environmental Forensics
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Marine Pollution Bulletin
Chemical Engineering & Technology
Detritus

Some selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Varghese are:

Application of Aztec Marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) for phytoremediation of heavy metal polluted lateritic soil, 2020, Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
Microplastic pollution of Calicut beach - Contributing factors and possible impacts, 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin
Spatio-temporal evaluation and risk assessment of microplastics in nearshore surface waters post-2018 Kerala deluge along the southwest coast of India, 2023, Marine Pollution Bulletin
Air quality change and public perception during the COVID-19 lockdown in India, 2022, Gondwana Research
Competitive adsorption analysis of antibiotics removal from multi-component systems using chemically activated spent tea waste: effect of operational parameters, kinetics, and equilibrium study, 2022, Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Frequent co-authors in Varghese's publications include:

Abinaya Sekar
M. K. Ravi Varma
Lakshmi Priya
Irfan Khursheed Shah
Prem Mohan

George Varghese's career has been recognized with several awards, including:

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2020)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2017) for work on network algorithmics that improve speed, security, and reliability of the Internet
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (2014) for contributions to network algorithmics and high-speed packet networks
ACM Fellow (2002) for contributions to efficient scalable algorithms

Best Publications

P4: programming protocol-independent packet processors

Pat Bosshart;Dan Daly;Glen Gibb;Martin Izzard

3251
Citations
Efficient fair queueing using deficit round robin

M. Shreedhar;George Varghese

3129
Citations
Efficient fair queueing using deficit round-robin

M. Shreedhar;George Varghese

2142
Citations
New directions in traffic measurement and accounting

Cristian Estan;George Varghese

1193
Citations
Scalable high speed IP routing lookups

Marcel Waldvogel;George Varghese;Jon Turner;Bernhard Plattner

1097
Citations
Automated worm fingerprinting

Sumeet Singh;Cristian Estan;George Varghese;Stefan Savage

1081
Citations
Forwarding metamorphosis: fast programmable match-action processing in hardware for SDN

Pat Bosshart;Glen Gibb;Hun-Seok Kim;George Varghese

1076
Citations
Fast and scalable layer four switching

V. Srinivasan;G. Varghese;S. Suri;M. Waldvogel

933
Citations
Header space analysis: static checking for networks

Peyman Kazemian;George Varghese;Nick McKeown

900
Citations
CONGA: distributed congestion-aware load balancing for datacenters

Mohammad Alizadeh;Tom Edsall;Sarang Dharmapurikar;Ramanan Vaidyanathan

900
Citations
Packet classification using tuple space search

V. Srinivasan;S. Suri;G. Varghese

853
Citations
Packet classification using multidimensional cutting

Sumeet Singh;Florin Baboescu;George Varghese;Jia Wang

805
Citations
New directions in traffic measurement and accounting: Focusing on the elephants, ignoring the mice

Cristian Estan;George Varghese

751
Citations
Fast address lookups using controlled prefix expansion

V. Srinivasan;G. Varghese

736
Citations
Real time network policy checking using header space analysis

Peyman Kazemian;Michael Chang;Hongyi Zeng;George Varghese

707
Citations
IP lookups using multiway and multicolumn search

Butler Lampson;Venkatachary Srinivasan;George Varghese

621
Citations
Deterministic memory-efficient string matching algorithms for intrusion detection

N. Tuck;T. Sherwood;B. Calder;G. Varghese

617
Citations
Difference engine: harnessing memory redundancy in virtual machines

Diwaker Gupta;Sangmin Lee;Michael Vrable;Stefan Savage

572
Citations
Building a better NetFlow

Cristian Estan;Ken Keys;David Moore;George Varghese

567
Citations
Difference engine: harnessing memory redundancy in virtual machines

Diwaker Gupta;Sangmin Lee;Michael Vrable;Stefan Savage

554
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Subhash Suri University of California, Santa Barbara

Nick McKeown Stanford University

Michael Mitzenmacher Harvard University

Ramana Rao Kompella Cisco

Amin Vahdat Google (United States)

Baruch Awerbuch Johns Hopkins University

Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego

Gruia-Catalin Roman University of New Mexico

Alex C. Snoeren University of California, San Diego

Boaz Patt-Shamir Tel Aviv University

External Links

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